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Daniel Ellsberg the 79 year old former US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post about the top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, has along with other demonstrators been arrested at a demonstration in support of currently detained whistleblower Bradley Manning outside the Marine Corps Brig at Quantico. Hundreds of protestors assembled outside the base where Bradley Manning is being held on dozens of charges relating to his leak of classified diplomatic cables and video to Wikileaks. The protestors primary concern relates to allegations of torture and punitive treatments being applied to Manning by his military jailors.

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Robert Upshur Woodward the 67 year old investigative reporter of Watergate fame with the Washington Post has lashed out at Donald Rumsfeld’s new book ‘Known and Unknown’ claiming the memoir is an effort to clean up his mess and distort history by shift blame to others including the then president George W Bush. Woodward claims Rumsfeld ignores the historic record or just avoids discussing issues that he can’t do a white wash over. Woodward notes many instances of where Rumsfeld fails to accept responsibility for his actions or lack off, and believes that when all the records are finally released his likely legacy will be his failure to accept responsibility.

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